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Alumni News
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Anderson & Quinn in Rockville,
Md. | Howard Moseley was
appointed chief deputy general
counsel at the California
Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation. Moseley previously
served as chief counsel
at the state Board of Parole
Hearings. | Kenneth Pogue
has been appointed by Gov.
Jerry Brown as undersecretary
of administration and offender
services at the California
Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, where he has
served as assistant secretary in the
Office of Legislation since 2013.
1997
Tiffinay Pagni was named to
the Nevada Attorney General’s
Advisory Committee for the Office
of Military Legal Assistance. The
president of the Washoe County
Bar Association, she is a partner at
Adams & Associates, which operates
youth and children’s programs
for local, state and federal agencies.
| Anthony Stanley has been promoted
to assistant general counsel
at the Walt Disney Company in
Burbank, where he leads the content
protection team responsible for
Toward
Justice for
All
Activist Jo Michael, ’12, has
dedicated his career to
LGBT equality
By Joanna Corman
Jo Michael, ’12, got an early start in his advocacy career. In high
school, he and a friend cofounded their school’s Gay-Straight
Alliance.
Michael continued working in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender community, including as a No on Proposition 8 field
organizer, and eventually became a legislative advocate.
After graduating from McGeorge, Michael joined Equality
California’s Sacramento office as a legislative fellow. In May 2015,
he was promoted to legislative manager. The Los Angeles–based
civil rights organization advocates for the LGBT community in
California and beyond.
As Equality California’s in-house lobbyist, Michael helps shepherd
bills through the legislative process. From 2013 through 2015, he
worked on 19 pieces of legislation; he also works with state agencies
tasked with implementing Equality California’s legislation,
ensuring they have the necessary support to make laws work the
way they were intended.
Last year, Equality California advocated for a bill signed by Gov.
Jerry Brown that will allow some state agencies to collect demographic
data on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is
groundbreaking for the LGBT community, Michael says, because
without this data, “our community does not count. We are not
counted so we do not count.”
Last year, the National LGBT Bar Association honored Michael as
one of 40 legal professionals under 40 whose work has “demonstrated
a profound commitment to LGBT equality.”
Making California a place where LGBT people can achieve full
equality propels him to continue his work.
“The desire and drive to do this work and to be able to address
the biggest issues that are still obstacles are what continue to
inspire me,” he says.